Matter is Eternal

LDS theology states that gods are created,
implying that matter must be eternal. However, secular cosmologists agree
that matter was created at the Big Bang:

"One of the major hypotheses on which
modern cosmology is based is that the Universe originated in an explosion
called the Big Bang, in which all energy (and matter) that exists today
was created.“ Eric S Rowland, UC Santa Cruz

“A large body of astrophysical
observations now clearly points to a beginning for our universe about 15
billion years ago... There is, in fact, no evidence that any of the
particles of matter with which we are now familiar existed before this
great event.” Louis J. Clavelli, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, University
of Alabama